Silly irritations

[Turksmom]

My personal irritation....having to eat ice cream with a metal spoon. the spoon gets too cold, and touches my teeth and it hurts. Plus the sound. I have a camping spoon (neoprene or something?) that is perfect for ice cream.

DH would say 'the way DW eats ice cream'. I don't empty the spoon, I just kind of take off the top layer of the ice cream, leaving a smooth oval of ice cream on the spoon. Takes two-three times to empty the spoon. I started doing it because of the metal spoons years ago, and now it's a habit.

My worldly irritation? People who don't clean up after their pets. Nothing worse than running after the grandkids through the grass at the park and running into a pile of dog poo. (not a silly one, I know. I try to not get irritate by silly things, saving my irritation for the bigger ones.)

We can never eat together. I can't stand the noise of teeth touching a spoon or fork. It's worse than fingernails on a chalkboard.

 

[Disney Frenhines]

I get very irritated by fast food workers that can't get my order right. It doesn't even have to be a complicated order for them to mess up. How hard is it to read a screen/receipt and follow instructions??

I'm an Engineer at a DOD company - my job is hard work. Throwing Fries in a bag is not...

Funny story to go with: I was 9 months pregnant - craving some McD's fries bad. So I waddled myself away from work, drove to McD's, ordered a combo, and waddled myself back to my desk. I opened the bag - No Fries!!! I cried so hard!! lol

How mean can you get, just because they work in a fast food place doesn't give you the right to be such a cow. If you were so smart you would check the bag before you left.

 

[Disney Frenhines]

CVS is really guilty of this. You buy one item and get a two foot long receipt.
Also, and I think this is much more a British thing, but, sales assistants always asking us to leave feedback or having it printed on the receipt. I worked as a sales assistant and I felt embarrassed to have to ask customers for feedback, even if I'd done a brilliant job I felt pushy doing it. The managers and the higher bods need to stop making sales assistants do this.

 

[Disney Frenhines]

And you have no idea what the circumstances are surrounding the re-homing.

This is Mrs Miggins, whose owner left her behind when she went off to Spain to live, no attempt to rehome her, just abandoned. She came into my garden starving, flea infested and with an infected eye that needed removing. The circumstances were her previous owner was selfish. Mrs Miggins, the name I gave her as no one knew her other name, was the dearest and sweetest cat ever!

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

We can never eat together. I can't stand the noise of teeth touching a spoon or fork. It's worse than fingernails on a chalkboard.

Oh that bothers me too. Which is why I use my lips on the spoon. And the plastic spoon makes no noise..

 

[RobinS87]

What annoys me the most is that I start a lot of things and don't finish them. At first, I take on everything and enthusiasm, and then I very quickly get bored with everything and I give up what I haven't finished.
I don't know how to deal with it.

 

[ronandannette]

How mean can you get, just because they work in a fast food place doesn't give you the right to be such a cow. If you were so smart you would check the bag before you left.

Agree that one needs to check the bag every time at a fast food place but honestly, if mistakes were made in any other industry at the same rate as they are at drive-thrus, our society would a perilous place indeed. It’s really quite ridiculous how careless they are.

 

[mrodgers]

Just bought a pistol to take my daughter shooting at the range (trying to get her spending less time with the loser boyfriend.) I should have bought a couple cases of baseballs for what I paid because I can't hit the target worth a darn throwing the pistol at it since I can't get any rounds for it. That's highly irritating for me right now.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Agree that one needs to check the bag every time at a fast food place but honestly, if mistakes were made in any other industry at the same rate as they are at drive-thrus, our society would a perilous place indeed. It’s really quite ridiculous how careless they are.

When I worked at DSW back then it was policy (at least in our area) that if the customer had to return to the store for either a security tag or shoes 2 different sizes or shoes for the same foot (we were supposed to check each and every shoe back then for all these things) we had to return the shoes, have the customer purchase it right back but with a 20% off attached for the inconvenience. That generally kept us on our toes as workers and it didn't happen too too frequently.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

How mean can you get, just because they work in a fast food place doesn't give you the right to be such a cow. If you were so smart you would check the bag before you left.

While I get on my husband for checking the bag before he drives home (he orders his stuff without cheese and often it will come back with cheese) it's not really nice to call someone a cow and be snide and say "if you were so smart".

I get you were responding to their portion of their comment regarding their profession and the difficulty level of their job in comparison to a fast food worker, and while I don't necessarily agree with the PP's wording/tone, your wording/tone of your response to them was not in proportion to theirs IMO.

 

[china mom]

The Italians, Greeks, those with family from the British Isles all use variations of Nana, Nonna, Nan, etc. Do the French, German, Polish, Jewish terms make your skin crawl, too?

I saw an HGTV personality talking about her grandchild calling her BG, for Best Grandma ever. Is that allowed or offensive?

I'm Greek and have no one in my family referred to by any derivation of Nana, Nona Nan etc. Greek grandmothers are YiaYias - as I will be one day.

My (non-Greek) in laws insisted that they will be knows as MawMaw and PawPaw, which had been well established with previous grandkids. I shudder every time those names are used but you gotta pick your battles.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

What annoys me the most is that I start a lot of things and don't finish them. At first, I take on everything and enthusiasm, and then I very quickly get bored with everything and I give up what I haven't finished.
I don't know how to deal with it.

When I'm cleaning/organizing/doing a joint project my husband calls me scatterbrained

So for instance I'll start cleaning/organizing the kitchen-I'll start on the island then before finishing that I'll move onto the kitchen table and often don't finish that before cleaning up the papers on the counter by the trash which is where a lot of our coupons end up, and so on. I'll eventually get it all cleaned/organized but I'll move around so much it drives him crazy.

Then we'll be doing a project and I'll say "you know we need to do.." and my husband will always say "no, we need to get this done" In fairness my husband is notorious for getting frustrated on projects about halfway through unless it's a project he's super excited about. When he gets frustrated he wants to quit and will often say "we're never doing this again" when he knows darn well we will

 

[FlightlessDuck]

People who don't use turn signals.

 

[mjkacmom]

People who use the microwave and don't clear the timer when they take out their food before the cycle is done

Guilty!

 

[mjkacmom]

We can never eat together. I can't stand the noise of teeth touching a spoon or fork. It's worse than fingernails on a chalkboard.

I call my kids out on it every time they accidentally touch a utensil to their teeth, or chew with their mouths open. We went on vacation with my sister’s fami,y, omg, chips and dry cereal eaten with mouths open, thank goodness for noise cancelling headphones and Audible.

 

[Disney Frenhines]

While I get on my husband for checking the bag before he drives home (he orders his stuff without cheese and often it will come back with cheese) it's not really nice to call someone a cow and be snide and say "if you were so smart".

I get you were responding to their portion of their comment regarding their profession and the difficulty level of their job in comparison to a fast food worker, and while I don't necessarily agree with the PP's wording/tone, your wording/tone of your response to them was not in proportion to theirs IMO.

While you are entitled to respond to me for my comment I would like to point out that calling one patronising person (please go back and read their comment) a 'cow' is nothing compared to calling people who work darn hard for little pay the names she called them. A little humility would go a long way sometimes and if getting fast food orders wrong bugs you then either don't eat at these places, after all I'm sure you can afford to pay for higher quality take out seeing as you are in such amazing jobs or, as I suggested before, check your order before you leave as with the amount of people they serve mistakes do happen and its up to you to make sure you get what you ordered.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

While you are entitled to respond to me for my comment I would like to point out that calling one patronising person (please go back and read their comment) a 'cow' is nothing compared to calling people who work darn hard for little pay the names she called them. A little humility would go a long way sometimes and if getting fast food orders wrong bugs you then either don't eat at these places, after all I'm sure you can afford to pay for higher quality take out seeing as you are in such amazing jobs or, as I suggested before, check your order before you leave as with the amount of people they serve mistakes do happen and its up to you to make sure you get what you ordered.

I understand having compassion for fast food workers I tend to give them a pass most of the time. But someone expressing frustration at their order being wrong and you call them a cow..and now you're trying to brush it off like your comment is the lesser of the two evils..

I'm not defending the other poster (I don't like when people make comments like their job is much harder than someone's menial job..somebody's gotta do the menial job here) but it's like the proverbial two wrongs don't make a right here kind of thing.

I'd also like to point out the other poster did NOT call anyone names. They just said "how hard is the work" and compared it to their job. You're actually the one who name called

 

[CdnCarrie]

The Italians, Greeks, those with family from the British Isles all use variations of Nana, Nonna, Nan, etc. Do the French, German, Polish, Jewish terms make your skin crawl, too?

I saw an HGTV personality talking about her grandchild calling her BG, for Best Grandma ever. Is that allowed or offensive?

allowed by who?
And yes I do find them irritating. Again never said it was logical.

 

[ronandannette]

While you are entitled to respond to me for my comment I would like to point out that calling one patronising person (please go back and read their comment) a 'cow' is nothing compared to calling people who work darn hard for little pay the names she called them. A little humility would go a long way sometimes and if getting fast food orders wrong bugs you then either don't eat at these places, after all I'm sure you can afford to pay for higher quality take out seeing as you are in such amazing jobs or, as I suggested before, check your order before you leave as with the amount of people they serve mistakes do happen and its up to you to make sure you get what you ordered.

Nice try but no. Here's her quote. She didn't call anybody any derogatory name of any kind. Only you did that.

I get very irritated by fast food workers that can't get my order right. It doesn't even have to be a complicated order for them to mess up. How hard is it to read a screen/receipt and follow instructions??

I'm an Engineer at a DOD company - my job is hard work. Throwing Fries in a bag is not...

Funny story to go with: I was 9 months pregnant - craving some McD's fries bad. So I waddled myself away from work, drove to McD's, ordered a combo, and waddled myself back to my desk. I opened the bag - No Fries!!! I cried so hard!! lol

 

[Poohlove]

It’s so silly but it drives me nuts when people mark an email as urgent when it isn’t. The red exclamation point is way overused!